The Clinton Health Access Initiative and other groups have negotiated a steep cut in the price of a test for HIV viral load, in hopes of increasing its use in poor countries. (NPR)

Parents in China are engaging in a rare action -- a political protest -- over faulty vaccines that they say caused severe side effects in their children. (CNN)

Doctors are using the steroid drug Depo-Medrol as a substitute for opioids in the treatment of chronic back pain, but the drug's maker, Pfizer, says the drug shouldn't be used for that purpose due to the risk of dangerous side effects. (The New York Times)

The "Medicare for All" single-payer healthcare proposal from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would cost taxpayers $32.6 trillion over 10 years, according to a study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. (ABC News)

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